[vlc-devel] Playlists service discover

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le mercredi 3 février 2010 23:14:04 Jakob Leben, vous avez écrit :
> Bonjour, bonsoir, wherever you are,
> 
> I think it would be a goody goodness to implement a Playlists service
> discovery until friday feature freeze, so users can save multiple playlists
> and find them in the media browser. I guess it would not be a big hassle
> since it probably only involves patching together existing code to save
>  xspf playlists into a vlc config folder and load them back from there.
> 
> I myself do not have experience in interacting with filesystem and the xspf
> module in VLC code, so if somebody can already see the whole solution, It
> would be great if they do it.
> 
> What do you think?

And you want to find them where? I am not aware of a standard directory to 
store "playlists" so we can discover them.

Scanning the entire filesystem is a very bad idea. It's slow, it's power 
hungry and it cannot be paced (filesystems do not implement non-blocking 
mode).

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